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Images of the Weekend

Selected by picture editor Brenda Fitzsimons

Sun 20 Jan 2019

TRADFEST:John Sheahan of The Dubliners joined by young music fans Kate Mulcahy and Lily Bourke, both from Donabate, ahead of the 2019 TradFest, which starts on January 23rd in Dublin. Photograph: Dara Mac Donaill/The Irish Times

DERRY BOMB: Forensics officers inspect the remains of the van used as a car bomb on an attack outside Derry courthouse. Dissident republicans are suspected to have carried out the attack. Photograph: Charles McQuillan/Getty Images

WAR MEMORIAL: More than 1,000 people attended the Soloheadbeg ambush centenary memorial in Co Tipperary. The ambush in which two policemen were killed marked the beginning of the War of Independence. Photograph: John D Kelly

SETTING THE AGENDA: Labour Party chairman Jack O'Connor gives the annual Tom Johnson graveside oration at Clontarf cemetery. Johnson, a former party leader, wrote the Democratic Programme of the first Dáil in 1919. Photograph: Tom Honan for The Irish Times

IMPRESS THE JUDGES: Crispin Rodwell, Press Photographers Association of Ireland president (standing right), Dermot O'Shea, former 'Irish Times' picture editor (2nd from left) with the judging panel; photographer Eamonn McCabe and former picture editor of the 'Glasgow Herald' (left). Almost 2,000 images were entered by members of the PPAI for this year's Press Photographer of the Year awards. The judging took place this weekend. Photograph: Dara Mac Donaill/The Irish Times

FEMFEST: Cervical cancer campaigner Vicky Phelan and journalist Martina Fitzgerald at FemFest, the National Women's Council of Ireland conference in Liberty Hall, Dublin. Photograph: Tom Honan for The Irish Times.

HONOUR GUARD: US president Donald Trump follows military leaders, secretary of state Mike Pompeo and a military honour guard into the back of an Air Force transport plane in Dover, Delaware. They were retrieving the remains of Scott Wirtz, a civilian employee of the US Defense Intelligence Agency killed along with three members of the US military during a recent attack in Syria. Photograph: Carlos Barria/Reuters

SHAKE YOUR TAIL FEATHER: Roosters dressed up in costumes are on display during a local chicken beauty pageant in Guang'an, Sichuan province, China. Photograph: Reuters

LA WOMAN: A protester takes part in the third annual women's march opposing US president Donald Trump in downtown Los Angeles, California. Photograph: Valerie Macon/AFP/Getty Images

EL DIA GRANDE: 'Tamborilleros' wearing their uniforms march in the traditional 'La Tamborrada', during 'El Dia Grande', the main day of San Sebastian feasts, in the Basque city of San Sebastian, northern Spain. Photograph: Alvaro Barrientos/AP

MACEDONIA ROW: A protester approaches police officers during a demonstration against the agreement reached by Greece and Macedonia to resolve a dispute over the former Yugoslav republic's name, in Athens. Photograph: Alkis Konstantinidis/Reuters